A review by neurodivengeance
Amateur City by Katherine V. Forrest

3.0

maybe it's all the Agatha Christie I'm used to hearing but I was expecting this to be twistier. I was right about who did it - which is ridiculous bc I suck at this kind of thing - but frankly I was expecting more MSM. oh well. fancy the shit out of Kate, OBVIOUSLY. enjoyed the femme-butch representation, and ESPECIALLY enjoyed the critique of overbearing controlling masculine privilege butches and the resistance Ellen as a femme put up to assumptions about her capabilities and how these things were not presented as being in any way unusual by the narrative voice. all the racism tho, that was tough to stomach, and I question whether Katherine Forrest has any right to have any characters use the terminology that comes up a few times in the text. (frankly I don't think she does have any right to that.) idk, I think I feel a bit underwhelmed by the ending but pleasantly surprised by how it was about (white, middle-class) femmes.

SPOILER

oh also the sex was sexy but jesus god would it kill you to make DIRECT REFERENCE TO CUNTS like srsly Katherine you're writing a sex scene, deal with it and be upfront pls. kthx.